Semester 2 week 3

This session was very useful as it involved interviewing, sampling methods and analysis. There was unstructured interviews conducted in my research project and all the credit goes to this session as I gathered all the skills required for the interview from this session.
The session covered effective ways to conduct structured and unstructured interview, and how to gather information in interviews. Being presentable, serious minded but good humour, self disciplined, a good listener, patient and persistent, empathetic, tolerant and understanding are all characteristics of a good interviewer. With all this characteristics in mind the interview for my research project was a success.
The sampling method can be very challenging, the topic of my research project was investigating staff turnover so I used the Judgment sample method (Non- probability sampling), I needed to collect information from ex-employees so I choose staff members who left the organisation and still in contact with them.

Analysis of data involves using methods that helps to describe facts, detect patterns, develop explanations and test hypotheses (Levine 1976) and this session give me in-depth understanding to analysing data.